I thought I would add to the other real estate discussions on here. I've decided to sell some of my land. I bought an adjoining 71.5 acres about 4 years ago and have decided to go ahead and sell it. I'll be turning 65 next month and have started thinking that I really don't need to have 2 places to hunt and fish, keep up fences, etc. I've decided to retire next year. It's about 60 miles NNW of Fort Worth. Deer, turkeys, hogs, dove, bass, CNBG.

Dang, it's hard to turn loose of toys like this but that time comes to all of us. When I bought it, my wife thought I was nuts. When I told her I figured it was about time to sell, she said "Why? You'll just go buy another one." But, I doubt it. The other 133 acre place is really about all I want for a weekend getaway. Or, maybe not. Who knows? I did tell the Realtor not to step foot on the place during hunting season without checking with me in advance. The Realtor called last night and said he would like to show it this weekend and I said no. This weekend is Kids Hunting weekend in Texas and my Grandson/Pardner and I will be there. Now, he also thinks I'm nuts.

If you have the minerals be sure to reserve them out of the sale.

DD good luck. I got a 134 acre piece and that is plenty to keep up with. Let us know if you get one this weekend. I did not do so well with my nephew during KY youth weekend but he still had a great time he said.

Eric, I don't have the minerals on the place. They were reserved years ago by the original seller.

Greg, I'm looking forward to this weekend. Last year, he got a hog on Kids weekend and really got excited. You should have seen the hoochie koochie that he was doing around the pasture.

A couple of weeks later, he got a pretty good sized buck with cull antlers. He walked up to it, took a look and said "gimme the phone". He called Grandma, Mom, Dad, Uncle, etc. He turns 9 on Thursday and we have to come back early Sunday for the party.

This will be his 5th year to hunt with me. Prior to last year, he carried his BB gun and I had the 30-06. He got the first shot and if they didn't go down cleanly, I had to finish them off. Funny how my bullet hole always went in the same place as his BB. Last year, Charlene gave him her Remington 222. Great kids gun and neither hog or deer took a step.

IF anyone is looking south of DFW or north of waco I have this property for sale.

http://www.lakehouse.com/page-34841.html

Wow RT, your ad has been viewed 1002 times.

...you'd think he'd get tired of lookin' at it

Bski thats not right. I've only viewed it 975 times.

RT, neat lookin place and fun design you got there. what amazes me is the market price for 36 acres......if that were in my neck of woods w/ pond, it would be a minimum of $800k w/ no house!!!! if wife and i didnt buy back in early 90's we could never live here.....i for one, am glad the market is turning down in CA and prices for things are coming back to reality. hey, good luck on selling, looks like a great place thats priced right.

Thanks DIED I hope it does too. DD1 has a much better chance of selling his place because the market in Texas is all about the almighty white tail. Just search for Texas ranch land. A majority of adds don't even have pictures of the property, just huge bucks standing by a feeder. I was in LA a few years ago and picked up one of those free home real estate magazines and was amazed by the price of real estate in CA. A Box frame house that might sale for 40K max in Fort Worth was 450K and up. It made me thank twice about ever wanting to move westward.

I've got a pal that just moved from the LA suburbs; a nice upper middle class neighborhood in a nice, newly renovated 3-4 BR home. He moved to...you guessed it...TX. I just emailed him recently. I asked for pics. He said that he was busy clearing about 50 mature trees to get a better view of the lake. I imagine his CA. equity is working pretty hard in TX.

Self-rationalization is such an important thing for pond/land owners to have as a skill set.

Do I realy need it? Hell no!

Can I convince myself that it is essential? Absolutely!

I am loaded with essentials that I can't even find. Heck, I found another full tackle box the other day.

I wish I could afford the upgrade , good luck dave!!

I wish I had some land.... wahahaha! The prices in my area have skyrocketed in the past 10 years. I am just too late to beat a developer to the good places. Now that the City of Ottawa amalgamated and swallowed up all of the surrounding townships they have pretty much eliminated the posibility of a private landowner getting anything more then a couple acres and it has to be on an already developed road. (Of course the big sub-division developers don't have to abide by these rules adn can buy/build anywhere).
All that to say: I wish I could buy such great pieces of property guys! (I have a lowely 12.5 acres... better then nothing but I am being surrounded by development)

Dave,

I sent you a PM.

Thanks, GaryTexas

Dave did you ever have any luck selling your place in Bowie? In case there are any lurkers out there that are wanting to buy land with a pond mine is still available and it can be had for a song. http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...shi#Post4716680

I need back surgery money.

If all of my customers asked themselves "will my life really be any better if I own this" I'd be in big trouble.

Nope, as the Realtor said when I called him "I sure wish you had called me 6 months ago.".

Well say good by to my big pond. It was fun while it lasted. I finally got cattle folks instead of deer hunters look at it and I got two offers in one day. One wanted financing the other said cash. I accepted. I have been trying to sale it for 2 plus years now. I let the new owner know he had a beaver to deal with. Guess I better go fishing before we close. I have never even set a hook in the water. The cats are just now getting eaten size.

Just in time Back suregery is scheduled in a few weeks.

Badda Bing, RT....that is great news...and quite the relief, I'll surmise.
Without serious details, was it like a trip to Vegas, or did you come back with your shirt still attached?

Congratulations RT!

You're going to have to let the fish get one more look at the pale floating thing with the blue water shoes.

I still have my shirt on. Given the swing in economy I say I broke even on my investment.
I Certainly didn't hit the jack pot by any means. That is ok all my toys and home place will be paid for soon. I am indeed in a state of relief.

Congrats RT!!!

Wait a minute, this doesn't mean that you're gonna abandon Pond Boss does it?

Who's gonna tell Brettski that his building ideas are crazy???

Thank Brettska!

Congrats Rocky. If you run into any more deer hunters, send them my way. Mine is still for sale.

Don't worry Jeff I'm not letting Bski off that easy. I still have 2 ponds and my hot rod is getting close to completion. I'll be around.

FYI I don't float as easy anymore. I am down 40 pounds and falling. I joined the band wagon with Bob. I am going in for back surgery in a few days. Thanks Bob for taking the time to share your wifes experience with me. It made me feel much better about my decision to go forward with the fusion.

I just give Brett flack because he dethroned me from being the TOP KOOK around here and I just can't get over it.


Speaking of missing in action what happened to Tom G and I don't see Theo poping in as often.

Good luck RT. Glad you are up on the sale and down on the weight.

Good luck on your surgery RT. For what's it's worth my mom had back surgery about a month ago - the change in her life (for the better) has been amazing. I wish you a speedy recovery.

Thanks Guys much appreciated.

And for you motor heads here is the current state of the hot rod.

Yeah, RT...best o' luck on the back surgery. Fusion or discography?
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If I have achieved Top Kook status, where does that put JHAP?
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The ride looks great. Best time on the 1/4?

"Kook" might not really be the right word for JHAP. In fact, it might be hard to encapsulate him with just one word.

I would go for "Total Freak," but that might not even get it.

"Freak of Life" would be closer, but still not quite there.

ever since he discovered the pistachio shell hat will dig post holes, he's been doing most of his poping along the field fence line

Calling a surfer (or former surfer in recent years) a kook will cause a fist fight here on the west coast. We take the word very seriously. (In surfing lingo a kook is used to describe an in-lander, usually a very infrequent surfer, that has no respect for the locals). And usually get's punished for their indiscretion.

Freak of Life is acceptable.

Fusion, I'm getting some aircraft hardware put in. I messed with my young surgeon, he knew I worked in aerospace in engineering so when he came in last week to discuss the surgery and started showing me the spin model with titanium hardware I seriously started asking him if he could give me the material and properties data for the hardaware he is to use. I told him I was going to have my stress team build a model in patran to see if it was strong enough to hold me up. When he begin to try and answer me I smiled and said I was just messing with him.


Best 1/4 is 14-0 at 101 mph. This was before I put the posi rearend in and massive rubber out back. With the stoick LS1 and all the weight loss it should easily get into the mid to low 13's now if it will hook up off the line. The car is geared for the highway more than drag racing. It really moves out when you get her in 3rd gear. Getting about 23 mpg so far average with at least one wot lauch every time out.

puffy freak of life

You guys be nice to Jeff he is a motor head so he can't be all that bad.

Swap the rear for a 9" and you can swap pumpkins in 20 minutes if you have discs on the back. Low gear for the track and high gear for cruising.

RT, what transmission do you have in the car? In my Terminator Cobra I had a 6 speed tremic. It had 3.55:1 rear gears but because of the overdrive 6th I got up to 26 mpg out of a car that would run low 12s (or high 11s by a skilled driver). After tweaking my Terminator it dyno'd 401 HP at the rear wheels - the car was a beast.

Plus one on the 9 inch, a well built one doesn't come cheap but they are about as strong as it gets.

I'm running a 4l60e 4 speed auto. I am running 3.08 gears in the rear. The 6 speeds have a little more od in top gear and can run shorter gears. The 4l60e has a very low first gear and therefore will not benefit from putting the short gears in the rear. I can already smoke both back tires at will. I have not tested sense I installed the bigger 265 tires out back. I need a stall converter if I wish to improve my 1/4 times. I am not really concerned about it. It is more of a cruiser anyway. If I can hang with young guys in ther new camaro's and challegers I'm happy.

I got to wach out for the new mustang. Have you guys seen the numbers they are laying down with just drag radials and a few bolt on mods and tune. There in the high tens already with the new 2011 power plant.

Great transmission and I agree on the rear gears. When I had my Cutlass (was factory ordered as a sleeper, had a 455, 4bbl carb, Hurst Dual Gate shifter, dual exhaust and posi) I switched the rear ratio to 3:42, it became a stop light bruiser but an absolute pain on the highway (had a TH400 in it).

The new 5.0 power plant is a monster. Almost no reason to pay all of the extra bucks for a Shelby. Once people start bolting on super chargers to the new 5.0 they are going to be the one to beat. I haven't read about how stout the internals are on the new 5.0 though so boost may be limited. From what I'm reading, folks are putting down high 12s on the 2011 in stock form!

In my terminator I ran 9 pounds of boost (stock from the factory). A lot of folks ported the supercharger (Eaton) swapped pulleys and had the cars tuned and put down 550 to the rears. A guy I knew did this - it was one of the scariest cars I've ever ridden in. By swapping to a Kenne Belle supercharger (twin screw with less parasitic loss), pulley swap and tuning regularly yielded 600 plus RWHP and would run low 10s unfortunately I never got a chance to ride in one so equipped.

My Terminator made me a true believer in supercharging. The Terminator motor had all forged internals so folks regularly cranked the boost up to about 15 pounds without loosing reliability, a few folks played with over 20 pounds of boost.

Dammit RT, now you have me reading 2011 5.0 articles. I just read that Ford is going to offer a factory supercharger package for the new 5.0. Very pricey package (about 7K) but it has a intercooler (like my terminator) and will boost the new 5.0's horsepower by 120. The good news - it won't void the factory warranty.

Give folks a year or two to play with the new 5.0 and we'll be seeing factory warrantied monsters running the streets.

Ditto.

I have the 9" in the Camaro. 3:00/locker for the street, 4:56/spool for the track. Doug Nash 5-speed, so I didn't have the converter issues.

Umm... What language was that? LOL I definitely am NOT a car guy. LOL

9" = Ford nine inch rear end.

3:00, etc means the rear end gear ratio. Lower the number means the less rpm's the motor turns per distance forward traveled. For instance; 3:00 to 1 means that with a non-overdrive trans the rear tires turn 1 revolution to three revolution of the motor. 4:56 to 1 means that the rear tires turn 1 revolution to 4.56 revolutions of the motor.

Locker - Ford's version of a locking differential, but still allowing the rear wheels to turn at different speeds when going around a corner if there isn't a lot of power applied, which will "lock" both wheels together via the axles.

Spool - deveice in the rear end that permantntly locks both axles together. Not recommended for street driving 'cause it will cause the axles to twist; possibly breaking them, and it will cause increased tire wear on the rear tires.

Doug Nash - type of manual transmission where 5th gear is still a 1:1 ratio, but the other ratios are lower. It was a precursor to the overdrive transmissions of today. It was popular in the mid to late 1980's.

I wish I had a 9" rear-end.....

I had to read the edit twice.